Bus name tribute to popular driver John Vaughan

Reading Buses boss James Freeman, staff and family at the ceremony to unveil the new bus

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Family and colleagues of a popular bus driver who died suddenly gathered to see a bus named after him.

A new Reading Buses scarlet 9 gas vehicle now bears the name of John Vaughan, who worked for the company for 14 years.

His family said they were honoured by the gesture.

Mr Vaughan, 52, collapsed in the Great Knollys Street bus depot in July and died that day in Royal Berkshire Hospital.

At a ceremony at the depot on Wednesday, Reading Buses chief executive James Freeman said: “On July 29, one of those things that happens in life that none of us expects and none of us wishes for took place; that was the death of our friend and colleague John Vaughan, which came as such a shock to everybody.”